How many times have you heard that agencies can no longer attract the best talent? If you’re like me, you’ve heard it one too many times, which makes this story a smile-inducing moment.<\/p>\n
According to Lindsay Rittenhouse at Ad Age<\/a>,\u00a0The Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne is joining Deeplocal<\/a> as an experience designer.<\/p>\n No, the band is not breaking up. The band is intrigued by what it can do with machines, specifically what kind of music it can make.<\/p>\n How did Wayne Coyne and Deeplocal get together?<\/p>\n “Anyone who is involved in robots, I am automatically interested in them,” Coyne told Ad Age. Deeplocal, which was founded at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, is interested in robots.<\/p>\n The Flaming Lips<\/a> recently collaborated with Deeplocal and Google’s AI team, Magenta, to create “Fruit Genie,<\/a>” which the band incorporated into its headline concert at Google I\/O<\/a> in May.<\/p>\nFruit Genie Is the New Piano<\/h2>\n